Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Isabella Redpath was born on 21 October 1864 in Ayton, Berwickshire, Scotland – the daughter of Charles Redpath, a baker, and Sarah Brown. (See 110 Mrs Redpath)
She emigrated to Canterbury in 1874 on the Canterbury with her family and, by the 1880s, they had settled in Clinton in South Otago.
Isabella married Angus McDonald, a town clerk, on 22 July 1886 in Clinton and they had two sons.
Isabella signed the suffrage petition in Clinton before they moved to Balclutha where Isabella died on 8 May 1920.
Her obituary said she 'was a prominent member of the Methodist Church, taking an active interest in all its institutions. She was also a very enthusiastic worker in all patriotic and war relief funds, and was ever to the front when anything was required in the way of help from the ladies of the district for any good cause'.
Angus died in 1925, they are buried together in the Balclutha Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Clutha District Council https://www.cluthadc.govt.nz/council
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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